Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer

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Prostate cancer: 9. Treatment of advanced disease.

A 70-year-old man is referred to a urologist for recommendations on the management of metastatic prostate cancer. His cancer was diagnosed 5 years ago, and he underwent radical prostatectomy at that time. The tumour was confined to the prostate gland (Gleason score 7), and during surgery the lymph nodes were assessed as being clear of cancer. Before the surgery, the patient's prostate-specific ...

Treatment strategies for locally advanced prostate cancer.

With the increasing aged population, prostate cancer has become one of the commonest malignant tumors in the United States. The incidence of prostate cancer is the highest among malignant tumors in males, and the mortality rate is the second highest following lung cancer. Even when prostate cancer is diagnosed to be in the early stage preoperatively, its excised lesions are often judged pathohi...

Degarelix for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer compared with GnRh-Agonists: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Hormone therapy is currently the mainstay in the management of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer. We performed a systematic review to compare safety, efficacy and effectiveness of degarelix, a new gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist (blocker), versus gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists. Methods: MEDLINE, Web of Science and the Cochrane librar...

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